#4285 - Monday, June 20, 2011 - Editor:
Gloria Lee

When mind
is quiet, all is Self.When mind moves the world arises,so be still, throw away everything, and be free.Then, when mind is pure, you will see Selfin all beings.Give up seeing with the outer eyeand the Divine eye will open.

- Papaji

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Imagine space itselfreaching into its own invisibilityfor some light with which to formetheric masks of momentarily appearingshapes that you and I in turn assume to beourselves, momentarily forgettingwe are that space.

or else youre off in some fog concerning tomorrow, is that what you call it? My work: to unsnare times warp (and woof!), retrieving, my haze-headed friend, you. This shining bark,

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photo by Alan
Larus

"You of this
moment are no longer you of a minute ago. There is no permanent entity within us, there is only a stream
of being. There is always a lot of input and output. The input and the output
happen in every second, and we should learn how to look at life as streams of
being, and not as separate entities. This is a very profound teaching of the
Buddha. For instance, looking into a flower, you can see that the flower is made
of many elements that we can call non-flower elements. When you touch the
flower, you touch the cloud. You cannot remove the cloud from the
flower, because if you could remove the cloud from the flower, the flower would
collapse right away. You don't have to be a poet in order to see a cloud
floating in the flower, but you know very well that without the clouds there would
be no rain and no water for the flower to grow...

A flower cannot
be by herself alone. A flower has to "inter-be" with
everything else that is called non-flower.. That is what we
call inter-being. You cannot be, you can only inter-be. The word inter-be can
reveal more of the reality than the word "to be". You cannot be by
yourself alone, you have to inter-be with everything else. So the true nature of the flower
is the nature of inter-being, the nature of no self. The flower is there,
beautiful, fragrant, yes, but the flower is empty of a separate self. To be empty is
not a negative note. Nagarjuna, of the second century, said that
because of emptiness, everything becomes possible.

So a flower is
described as empty.. But I like to say it differently. A flower
is empty only of a separate self, but a flower is
full of everything else. The whole cosmos can be seen, can be identified, can
be touched, in one flower. So to say that the flower is empty of a separate
self also means that the flower is full of the cosmos. It's the same thing. So you
are of the same nature as a flower: you are empty of a separate self, but you
are full of the cosmos..."